Improvement in tops for sirup-pitchers



GEORGE P. \LAN'G & PETER LANSTERf Improvement in Tops for SirupPitchers. No. 120,387, Patentedoct. 31,1871.

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GEORGE PH. LANG AND PETER LAUSTER, OF ALLEGHENY CITY, PA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOPS FQR SlRUP-PITCHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,387, dated October31, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, GEORGE PH. LANG and PETER LAUSTER, of AlleghenyCity, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and useful improvement in Tops for Sirup-Pitchers; and wedo hereby declare the following to be a full, clear and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawingmaking a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of our improved top. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same with aportion of the rim removed, on which the cap or cover rests; and Fig. 3is a vertical section through the middle of the spout.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in each.

Our improvement relates to that class of metallic tops for glass,earthenware or stone pitchers, ju 's, &c., which have a delivery-spoutinside a ring, by which any liquid which drains over the spout and runsdown shall be drained back into the pitcher. Such tops have heretoforebeen made with a spout and draining-flange or ring in separate pieces,and both soldered in place onto or inside the neck or body part. Thismode of manufacture was too costly. ()ur improvement is of suchcharacter that the neck, drainingring, and spout are produced in onepiece at a single casting.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our improvement, wewill proceed to describe the same.

The top is cast, by the use of suitably shaped molds and cores, frombritannia or other suitable metal or composition of metals. The neck B,with its annulus A, is made of suitable size and form to fit onto theupper open end of the pitcher. Around its upper end is the cup-shapedflange or ring 0, on which rests the cover D. Along with the neck B andring 0, and on that which is to 'be the delivery side, we cast a spout,E, and,

in casting, so dispose the metal that the trough formed by the spout Eand ring 0 shall descend or slope downward each way from the middle S ofthe base of the spout to each end S. It will then be obvious that anyliquid which runs down outside of the spout will be caught in the troughformed by it and the ring and be drained back into the pitcher. Thistrough with a sloping bottom is formed, it will be seen, by slightlyelevating, in casting, that part of the ring 0 which comes on the spoutside, as at N, the greatest elevation being at the middle of the spout,whence it lessens each way.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

A drain-ring, C, and spout E cast in one piece with the neck B,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We, the said GEORGE PH. LANG and PETER LAUSTER,have hereunto set our hands.

GEO. PH. LANG.

Tnos. B. KERR. (34)

